Blogging with kids
This evening, my nine-year-old, Meg, came over to me as I was working on my computer. “Are you writing about …
Category Archives: How we’re coming along
In which Meg joins the Brownies
My 9-year-old daughter Meg was a Girl Scout back in the US, so when I heard from two of the …
My great-grandfather John Bent Wallis, writer and painter
My great-grandfather, John Bent Wallis, was a self-taught painter and journalist. He painted the picture above in 1901 showing the …
WEGOTTHEVISASWEGOTTHE#@*&ingVISAS!!!!
We. Got. The. Visas! Katie has just phoned us from Cambridge, where she’s opened …
On this very spot near King’s College Chapel, my dad and I, 40 years apart . . .
My sister, me, my mother, and my father in a photo taken by our family friend and Cambridge don, Mike …
“You just paid her money. Good, good.”
This morning I went to Indigo, my favorite student restaurant in the center of town, for decaf cappuchino. Jack (whose …
Keeping what’s important
I once had a not-very-nice neighbor who objected to my stuff in my portion of our shared basement. She particularly …
Surplus to requirements: hitting the ads/adverts
Ever since I signed the contract for our new apartment over two weeks ago, I’ve been devoted to the Gumtree …
Bleak House: 3BR, unfurn.
October 6th: we moved into our own place today. There has been a gap of three weeks between my signing …
We arrive in Cambridge!
In mid-August, when it seemed as if my older daughter being accepted at a Sixth Form College in Cambridge was …
The Year of Living Englishly 